Workfare, the strict requirement instituted by the Giuliani administration requiring city welfare recipients to work to get benefits, will be eliminated by the de Blasio administration by the end of the year.

The Work Experience Program was launched in the mid-1990s and was once the largest such program in the nation, with 32,165 people enrolled in 1999 at its peak.

Mayor de Blasio and Human Resources Administration Commissioner Steve Banks announced in late 2014 that the program was inflexible and had a checkered rec­ord in placing participants in permanent jobs.

“We have been phasing out WEP and replacing the one-size-fits-all approach with programs that better assess clients’ strengths, challenges and goals, and emphasize education and training tied to areas of the economy that are creating jobs,” said HRA spokeswoman Lourdes Centeno.

The HRA has already reduced the number of city agencies using WEP from 19 to four, with only 1,000 participants remaining.